Joint DNP Town Meetings on Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics

August 21-23, 2014

 

Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University

 

 

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Thursday, August 21st: Mitchell Physics Building

8:15 AM - 10:35 AM Thursday Morning Joint Astro/LENP Plenary Session
Room: 203/204/205 Chair: M. Riley

8:15 AM - 8:20 AM Welcome
8:20 AM - 8:35 AM Charge and LRP process (J. Hardy)
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM Theory of Nuclei and Their Reactions (W. Nazarewicz)
9:05 AM - 9:35 AM Experimental Studies of Nuclei (R.V.F. Janssens)
9:35 AM - 10:05 AM Nuclear Astrophysics Overview: Report from 2012 Town Meeting (H. Schatz)
10:05 AM - 10:35 AM Theory for Astrophysics (S. Reddy)

10:35 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Thursday Morning Joint Astro/LENP Plenary Session
Room: 203/204/205 Chair: C. Elster

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM Fundamental Symmetries (B. Balantekin)
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM Neutrino Physics (N. Tolich)
11:50 AM – 12:15 PM Nuclear Structure Studies at Jefferson Laboratory (J. Arrington)

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH

1:30 PM - 3:10 PM Thursday Afternoon Joint Astro/LENP Plenary Session
Room: 203/204/205 Chair: H. Schatz

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM FRIB Status, NSCL, and the Path Forward (T. Glasmacher)
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM FRIB Major Equipment (M. Smith)
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM ATLAS White paper Summary (G. Savard)
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM ARUNA White Paper Summary (I. Wiedenhoever)
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM Experimental Initiatives in Nuclear Astrophysics (C. Brune)

3:10 PM - 3:35 PM Coffee Break

3:35 PM – 4:35 PM Thursday Afternoon Joint Astro/LENP Plenary Session
Room: 203/204/205 Chair: M. Wiescher

3:35 PM - 3:55 PM Report from the Workshop on Computational Needs for Nuclear Physics (J. Carlson)
3:55 PM - 4:15 PM Report from the Town Meeting on Education and Innovation (M. Thoennessen)
4:15 PM - 4:35 PM Applications Overview (S. Wender)

Short break

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM Discussion Session Education and Outreach Room: 203/204/205 Chair: M. Thoennessen

6:00 - 7:30 PM Reception: Cyclotron Institute

Friday, August 22nd: Mitchell Institute/Mitchell Physics Building


8:30 AM - 12:00 PM LENP WG (Working Group Organizers in Parenthesis)

10:15 AM - 10:35 AM Coffee Break

- Theory for Low-Energy Nuclear Science (Carlson, Hagen, Elster, Nazarewicz, Reddy) Room 205
- Nuclear Structure and Reactions Experiment (Carpenter, Fallon, Gade, Higinbotham, Jones, Wuosmaa) Room Hawking Auditorium - Presentations Set 1 Set 2
- Nature of Dilute and Dense Nuclear Matter and the Equation of State (Horowitz, Natowitz, Sobotka, Tsang) Room 204
- Applications and Nuclear Data (Stoyer, Lapi, Vetter, Kondev, McCutchen) Room 203

12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Astro WG 1 + LENP WG 2 (Working Group Organizers in Parenthesis)

- Supernova models, mergers models and chemical evolution (Hix, Froehlich) MI102
- RIB Beams, explosive nucleosynthesis (Rehm, Zegers, Bardayan, Blackmon) Room 204
- Stable and gamma beams, stars, …. (Champagne, Brune, Rogachev) Room 213
- Nuclear theory for astrophysics (McLaughlin, Reddy, Escher) Room 205
- Applications and Nuclear Data (Stoyer, Lapi, Vetter, Kondev, McCutchen) Room 203
- Nuclear Structure and Reactions Experiment (Carpenter, Fallon, Gade, Higinbotham, Jones, Wuosmaa) Room Hawking Auditorium - Presentations Set 3

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM– 4:30 PM Astro WG 2 (Working Group Organizers in Parenthesis)

- Astrophysics theory and computing (Timmes, Messer) Room 205
- Neutron beams, s-process, NIF (Couture, Bernstein) Room 213
- Data for Astrophysics (Meyer, Smith) Room 203
- Neutron Stars Science, experiments, theory (Lynch, Steiner) Room 204

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Break

4:45 – 6:45 PM Joint Astro/LENP Session (Working Group Organizers in Parenthesis)

- Experimental Facilities and Instrumentation (Gross, Howell, Macchiavelli, Savard, Sherrill, Wiedenhoever) Room Hawking Auditorium
- Future Computational Needs in Nuclear Physics (Carlson) Room 203 - Chaired by M. Savage

Saturday, August 23rd: Mitchell Institute

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Joint Astro/LENP Session
Room: 203/204/205

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Working Group Reports

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM Coffee Break

9:50 AM - 11:45 PM Resolutions and Outcomes


11:45 Adjourn

 

 

 

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